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FROM THE ARCHIVESep 29, 1941·Tacoma, Washington

CHIANG KAISHEK & GUNS

Scanned from The Tacoma Times, Sep 29, 1941
CHIANG KAISHEK & GUNS
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S 1 0 Y Y o v R w A Y i L Al i E s s L A T s Al A L E Y o r W Al o T u B B 8 3 v E D R Y E R y WHY MOTHERS OET GRAY o o et o ouUR 0 U R B o A R D N G H o U S K 12 mn THE RAF By Harlen Thomaes Continued From Page. One for Chiang Kaishek of carrying guns to South Amgrican insurrec tionists of mapping out air routes over miidAfrican jungles. When thev turned to Tim and asked him where he hailed from and. What hed done he could say that he had flown the mails in the Southwest for two years that he had worked for a while in transports and that before taking on hisg latest job he had done a little test piloting.

Maybe it was not very much but lt was good enough. The veterans gtmk him in. The chief danger of the coming flight greater even than the sdnnmr of accident over the Atlln tic waste was that the pianes un armed and heavy with fuel.

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